trussed

Example Sentences

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"He's not used to being all trussed up like that, you see."

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2023

Don't cut your carrot on the board you just trussed the chicken on either.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2023

Two, trussed onto hooks, hung in each pot sent down to the sea bottom, where their carcasses would be picked to the bone by snow crab.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022

The 69th annual Miss Navajo Nation Pageant began on a Monday just before 7 a.m. with three young women in long colorful dresses and aprons standing over a trio of trussed, bleating sheep.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2021

“They will be taking her down the gangplank on a stretcher tomorrow, trussed up like a parcel.”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck